Identifier: handbookoftreeso00houg (find matches)
Title: Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924
Subjects: Trees -- North America
Publisher: Lowville, N. Y., The author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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BITTER-NUT HICKORY. Hicoria minima (Marsh.) Britt.
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Fig. 61. Fruiting branchlet with leaf and fruit, i: nuts with epicarp removed, nuts in section and with shell partly removed, 3; leaf from vigorous shoot, 4; branchlet in winter, 5. 62. Trunk of tree in Genesee River valley, N. Y. 63. Wood structure magnified 15 diameters. Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada. The Bitter-nut Hickory when growing in the forests on moist bottom hinds occasionally attains the height of 100 ft., and when growing apart from other trees develops a well rounded but often irregular top of handsome foliage. Its straight columnar trunk is sometimes 2 or 3 ft. in diameter and vested in a characteristic brownish gray bark with close scaly almost reticulate ridges. It thrives best in low moist soil in company with the Silver and Red Maples, Black Ash, Elms, etc., but is often found also on rolling uplands. Being very hardyand less fastidious than the other Hickories in conditions of soil in which it grows, it is more uniform in its distribution and

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